Who would think a Motel 6 would be cool but it was. Like the crazy prefab hotels in Germany in the 90s. Cold, but whatever. I could see two worlds. […]

The Fairmont in WInnipeg on our day off. I was proud of the routing I booked over these 20 dates including these two day offs now. Bc finished, now Sk, […]

Squamish felt like a night where the categories people carry around quietly give up and go home early. James has a heavy metal band, though he talks about it with […]

Powell River arrived the way certain dreams do. Quietly, then all at once you’re inside something with its own logic. Jason promoting the show. Electrician by trade, mountain climber by […]

The Gumboot Café in Roberts Creek feels like a place where conversations never end. Pause a few years, pick up again when someone wanders back through the door. Joe was […]

Nanaimo arrived on a hill. Not the polite incline of Toronto sidewalks but the kind of hill that makes you feel we’re in San Francisco by mistake. Streets as if […]

In Duncan time got curious and decided not to move so fast. The performance space “the Showroom” assembled from good intentions and objects that refused to die. Everywhere you look, […]

The woman selling tickets turned out to be a hotel maid. Not permanently. She told me she was graduating to become a cosmetician. Another woman was a beauty expert who […]

Tyrant Studios in Vancouver does not announce itself so much as reveal itself in layers. You walk in thinking you are going to play a room, and then Daniel, musican/ […]